Pear Diamond

As one of the most popular fancy shaped diamonds, pear shaped diamond is getting more and more popular among jewellery lovers all over the world these years. Lots of people choose it as their engagement stone for two simple reasons. First of all, pear diamonds always look bigger in visual size comparing with round brilliant diamonds with the same carat weight. Second, once you wear a pear diamond ring on your finger, it can stretch your finger line and make your hands look slimmer and more elegant. For a standard one-carat pear diamond, its length can reach around nine millimeters, and its width is about five millimeters, this data is a basic reference for new buyers who do not know much about diamond dimension.

If you take out a pear diamond and watch it carefully under soft light, you will see its special outline clearly. One end of the stone forms a smooth half circle, and the other end tapers down to a thin, sharp point. The whole shape looks just like a drop of water falling from the sky, or a single teardrop roll down from someone’s cheek. That is why many people also call it teardrop diamond in daily talk. Anyone who keep an eye on high fashion fine jewelry must have stepped into the boutique of Chaumet before. The brand’s diamond rings fully show the outstanding sparkle and brilliance of pear shaped stones, and they do it better than most luxury jewellery brands. The rings from their Joséphine Aigrette collection have already become timeless classics that represent a whole fashion era. Countless celebrities and royal families pick this series for their important life moments, and this push pear diamonds to become even more trendy in recent market.

There are many world-famous pear shaped diamonds recorded in jewellery history books, and two of them are the most well-known to the public. The first one is the Cullinan Diamond, which weights more than five hundred carats at its rough state. After professional cutting work, this pear diamond owns seventy-four facets in total. People mount this precious stone on the royal scepter of British monarch, and it still stay there as a priceless national treasure up to today. Another legendary pear diamond is the Taylor-Burton Diamond, with an original weight of 69.42 carats. Its first famous owner was Elizabeth Taylor, a super movie star with huge fame in last century. Later, a man named Robert bought this diamond from the previous holder. He sent the stone back to diamond craftsmen for re-cutting, trimming and polishing to fix its uneven surface and boost its light performance. After the rework process finished, the weight of this pear diamond drop to roughly 68 carats, but its fire and clarity got a huge upgrade.

Different from round diamonds, fancy shape diamonds like pear do not receive an official cut grade on standard GIA diamond certificates. Gem lab workers can only sum up years of testing experience and sum out a ideal parameter range for pear stones, to help customers pick well-cut pieces with good light return.

The length-to-width ratio is the most important index for pear diamonds. The perfect range stands between 1.5 and 1.7. Stones inside this interval can release the best fire and brightness when light pass through the facets. If the ratio go above 1.7, the pear diamond will turn too slim and long, the half-circle end will look small and unbalanced. If the ratio fall below 1.5, the stone become too short and compact, lose the elegant teardrop feature that pear diamond famous for.

Other key proportions have fixed suitable ranges too. The table width ratio should stay 56% to 60% of the whole stone width. The total depth ratio need to keep between 59% and 62%. For the girdle thickness, medium thickness is the most friendly choice for daily wear; stones with thin or slightly thick girdle are also acceptable, with or without extra girdle facets both work fine.

I will always suggest every buyer check the real diamond in person before pay the bill. You need to avoid pear diamonds with heavy bow-tie effect. The dark bow tie shadow in the center will block light reflection and make the stone look dim and lifeless. Numbers on the certificate can only tell you basic data, you can not picture the actual shining look of a diamond just by reading those parameters. The online diamond retailer Blue Nile shoot high-definition video for every single diamond they sell on their website. When you feel confused and cannot make a final decision between several stones, you can enter their online zoom room to watch each diamond’s live video, rotate the stone and check its light performance from all angles. This online service greatly lower the risk of buying a unsatisfactory pear diamond without seeing real items offline.